This seems to have come out of nowhere. Was anyone aware of this ahead of time? Why didn’t anyone try sharing the news to get prestigious academics, institutions and others to loudly say this is a terrible idea? Or get Kelsey Piper or someone to write a big news article about this?
I knew this was going on for quite a while (my guess is around a year or two). I think ultimately it was a slow smothering by the university administration and given the adversarialness of that relationship with the university, I don’t really think outrage would have really helped that much (though it might have, I don’t really understand the university’s perspective on this).
My guess is dragging this out longer would have caused more ongoing friction and would have overall destroyed more time and energy by the really smart and competent people at FHI than they would have benefitted from the institution.
This seems to have come out of nowhere. Was anyone aware of this ahead of time? Why didn’t anyone try sharing the news to get prestigious academics, institutions and others to loudly say this is a terrible idea? Or get Kelsey Piper or someone to write a big news article about this?
I knew this was going on for quite a while (my guess is around a year or two). I think ultimately it was a slow smothering by the university administration and given the adversarialness of that relationship with the university, I don’t really think outrage would have really helped that much (though it might have, I don’t really understand the university’s perspective on this).
My guess is dragging this out longer would have caused more ongoing friction and would have overall destroyed more time and energy by the really smart and competent people at FHI than they would have benefitted from the institution.
That makes sense.
Did you know they were going to close today? Were you suprised by the news?
My sense is FHI was somewhat accurately modeled as “closed” for a few months. I did not know today would be the date of the official announcement.